About Constructing Excellence
Constructing Excellence is the place for leading organisations and individuals with a role in shaping and delivering a better built environment to come together, share knowledge, insight and approaches. The insight gained enables them to implement solutions that will improve the performance of their businesses, their projects and the built environment.
What is Constructing Excellence?
- Constructing Excellence is an industry movement that operates at a national, regional and local level throughout the UK.
- Constructing Excellence brings together people and organisations from all disciplines and positions in the supply chain. Together, they collaborate to deliver a better built environment.
- Constructing Excellence focuses on the commercial and cultural aspects of industry change, leaving trade bodies and institutions to focus on in-depth technical issues.
- The diversity of stakeholders engaged across the movement provides a unique forum to unlock progress.
Constructing Excellence aims to bring about a construction industry delivering better outcomes through:
- Long term collaborative delivery models
- Strategic procurement
- Technology and innovation
- Inclusive knowledge exchange for continuous improvement
5 Pillars of the Constructing Excellence Strategy
- Empowering Members
- Driving Engagement & Influence
- Delivering Insight & Inspiration
- Nurturing Future Talent
- Strengthening Governance
Empowering Members
Members underpin the Constructing Excellence movement. The diversity of membership in terms of types of organisation and professional disciplines is a key enabler of Constructing Excellence’s success. This will be strengthened through:
- Actively engaging members and working with members to scope and define programmes of activities that add value for members and align with Constructing Excellence’s vision.
- Creating a clear membership proposition that attracts and retains high-quality members, supporting them to drive better culture and commercial advantage.
- Attracting and recruiting diverse new members that will enhance the movement and help Constructing Excellence achieve its vision.
- Ensuring that organisations engage at the right level within the Constructing Excellence movement.
KPIs: New Members; Member Retention; Member Engagement; Growth across the Movement
Driving Engagement & Influence
Constructing Excellence operates within a wider built environment ecosystem. Influencing change and collaborating with others is critical to achieving our objectives. We will achieve this through:
- Positioning Constructing Excellence in the right places to the right individuals who can help unlock the potential of the movement.
- Identifying and prioritising the organisations and individuals we need to engage and influence to drive progress and change.
- Establishing engagement plans for each priority organisation and group.
KPIs: Prioritisation of stakeholders; priority stakeholder engagements; partnerships and joint working
Delivering Insight & Inspiration
Members engage with Constructing Excellence to gain insight into emerging best practice and collectively address challenges. Constructing Excellence aims to provide its members with the inspiration and know-how to effect change in their organisations, projects and programmes through:
- Translating the intelligence gained in meetings, events and the awards programme into actionable insight for members.
- Leveraging the research and knowledge base within BRE and the wider research and innovation community.
- Investigating mechanisms to enable members to share and access data and insight.
- Establishing mechanisms to ensure knowledge is shared effectively across the Constructing Excellence movement and more widely across the built environment industry to drive adoption and impact.
KPIs: Knowledge sharing strategy; online and social media engagement; researchers engaged
Nurturing Future Talent
A sustainable industry requires a pipeline of developing and emerging talent. Attracting and retaining talented and skilled individuals is a huge challenge for the construction industry. Constructing Excellence is nurturing and accelerating the progress of future leaders with Generation4Change:
- Supporting and meaningfully engaging Generation4Change with the wider Constructing Excellence movement.
- Listening to future leaders and finding ways to ensure their voices are heard across the movement and industry.
- Creating development pathways for Generation4Change leaders to transition into leadership roles across the movement and wider industry.
KPIs: Implement Generation4Change strategy, Level of support and engagement with Generation4Change
Strengthening Governance
Effective governance creates the foundations and leadership to ensure clarity, consistency and quality across the Constructing Excellence movement. Constructing Excellence will put mechanisms in place to unlock its potential through:
- Building on recent governance changes to strengthen communication within the movement.
- Implementing the behavioural framework to encourage the right values and behaviours across the movement.
- Exploring opportunities to enhance value recognition and reward mechanisms across the movement.
KPIs: Engagement across the movement; Develop a plan to unlock collaboration across the movement
- Insight
- Inspiration
- Implementation
We provide members with insight into how emerging technologies
or legislation can impact their future businesses.
We work with our members to demonstrate the art of the possible,
showcasing where are members are pushing boundaries
on better delivery.
We look at how others are practically implementing best
practice in their own organisations and projects.
Membership
Our members set our agenda and are the driving force behind our movement.
Members use our groups and forums to explore key issues impacting the industry right now and to drive change across construction. We provide regular opportunities for members to to share, learn from and network with each other and encourage engagement with the varied events we host.
View our Membership Document to find out more, or visit our Membership page.
Who we are
Constructing Excellence is a national movement, supported by Regional Partners across the UK. We work collaboratively towards a common purpose and ensure inclusivity with support from the CE Behavioural Framework.
Alison Nicholl
Head of Constructing Excellence
Antoinette Campbell
Membership Coordinator
Sophie Bloye
Insight and Engagement Coordinator
Governance
Strategy Board: provide strategic leadership and direction for the overall Constructing Excellence Movement.
Constructing Excellence Board: bring together the core elements of the movement and drive the strategy across the movement.
National Members Steering Group: an online forum to bring national members together to share views and issues that impact them.
-The Constructing Excellence Groups, ECI, Gold Standard Task Group and Value Toolkit Steering Group feed into the Members Steering Group.
CERP (Regional Partnership): drives consistency and continuous improvement across regional delivery.
-The CE Local Clubs feedback through CERP.
G4C: a committee of national and regional G4C reps aiming to drive forward G4C movement.
Our History
We have a strong heritage dating back to the 1990s Latham and Egan reports and our more recent publications Never Waste a Good Crisis and Infrastructure in the New Era, We have been delivering best-practice and knowledge transfer for more than 20 years.* In August 2016 we became part of the BRE group of companies.
*Constructing Excellence was formed in 2003 when the following bodies merged: Reading Construction Forum, Design Build Foundation, Construction Best Practice Programme, Movement for Innovation, Local Government Task Force, Rethinking Construction, BE, Construction Clients Group.
